Originally Posted by
MosquitoXEL
It's pretty easy to get an instrument rating in 40 hours. The cheapest way is to get 15 hours of dual CFI-I instruction and then split the time with a private pilot as a safety pilot. That's what I did and it was pretty affordable.
Yea, I've looked into that, but I can't find a reasonable rental aircraft near my home airport, that still comes to over $7000. I'm curious about the operations that advertise the $5000 to $7000 instrument in a couple weeks.